In the Air

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 69, 26 June 1916, Page 3

In the Air

BOMBS ON VENICE.

SIX PEOPLE KILLED. Home, June 24, Aeroplanes bombed Venice, six peoMlfeihg killed. ~ ~,.„, i ',., ■; •* s ' : P -. i(! ~„. ~: BRITISH AIR BER.VICEMR BILLINCIs ALLEGATIONS. United P.Rtffw AjSßoau»*.o!t. London, June 23. Mr Pemberton Billing, M.P., at an air enquiry, alleged that a naval airman an associated officer of the Royal Plying Corps, who had fallen into the sea, was reprimanded by the officer commanding, who said that Koyal Flying Corps men had no right to fly over the sea. The officer added full into the sea, let them drown." lie ordered the aviator, six days' extra duty because he seemed so fond of work. i Mr Billing added; "On the occasion 01-a-Zeppelin raid many aviators were ordered to go iup and 75 per cent. were killed, many machines being smashed." AUCKLAND AIRMAN'S DEATH. !• ' . | London, June 21. At the inquest on Lieutenant Vernon Aimer, evidence was given that his machine suddenly swerved, wobbled, and crashed down vertically. A verdict of accidental death was returned. (A London cable of June 22 said: "Lieut. Vernon Aimer, of the Flying Corps, an Aucklander, fell four hundred feet when flying near London, and was killed.")